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| US 'far behind other countries in Internet speed' |
| 2009-08-26 |
| [Iran Press TV] The United States has not made significant progress in Internet connection speed as it stands 28th in the world, according to a new US report. "Our nation continues to fall far behind other countries," the Communications Workers of America (CWA) said in the report on Tuesday. "People in Japan can upload a high-definition video in 12 minutes, compared to a grueling 2.5 hours at the US average upload speed," it said. The average download speed in South Korea is 20.4 megabits per second (mbps) - four times faster than the US average of 5.1 mbps. Japan follows South Korea with an average of 15.8 mbps trailed by Sweden at 12.8 mbps and the Netherlands at 11.0 mbps, the report said. It said tests conducted by speedmatters.org found the average US download speed had improved by only nine-tenths of a megabit per second between 2008 and 2009 - from 4.2 mbps to 5.1 mbps. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 HMMMMM, HMMMMM, so IOW its NOT the OWG-NWO SKYNET reading, recording, stopping, andor altering, etc. our personal emails at will widout having to ask us or tell us, D *** NG IT ITS BECUZ US NET SPEED IS TOO SLOW + BANDWIDTH NOT BIG ENUFF??? Thank goodness we settled/cleared that up. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-08-26 21:51 |
| #9 But WAY ahead in snark. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-08-26 21:44 |
| #8 A lot of these countries installed their infrastructure recently. Countries who started playing this game from the beginning are still dealing with a lot of legacy stuff. Besides, I don't need a huge bandwidth. I'll order it if they get the holographic killer app. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-08-26 14:33 |
| #7 How does the USA stack up against legitimate comparison countries: Canada, China, Russia, India? South Korea is about the size of Ohio. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-08-26 14:24 |
| #6 Our cell phone service is much worse than other countries too. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-08-26 11:47 |
| #5 Yeah? Well, ours is BIGGER than yours. So there. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-08-26 10:35 |
| #4 It proves what I've always thought, that all those other countries are just a bunch of low ping bastidges and probably hax as well. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-08-26 09:56 |
| #3 Since America has the majority of the worlds servers hosted there the ping speed will probably be the best in the world, however bandWIDTH at the last mile or so might be rubbish due to scale factors. Like everything IT it's probably best to look at the Log2 of speeds rather than the raw figures. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-08-26 09:34 |
| #2 Those willing to pay more can get faster. I have children to send to college, so I'm not willing to pay more. The nice thing about America is that we have such choices. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-26 08:19 |
| #1 Might just have something to do with size. South Korea is about the size of Florida. It also has to do with the fact that it is the United States of American. That's 50 separate public utility commissions dealing with regulatory aspects that effect bandwidth. Try wiring the four corners area [Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico] with large areas and low population density versus any major metro corridor something the Netherlands doesn't have to deal with. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-08-26 07:45 |